LEADER 03999nam 2200553 450 001 9910465643503321 005 20210430215230.0 010 $a0-8122-9283-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292831 035 $a(CKB)3710000000656970 035 $a(EBL)4540271 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4540271 035 $a(OCoLC)948780928 035 $a(DE-B1597)469680 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292831 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4540271 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11222695 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL919452 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000656970 100 $a20160628h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aEquality on trial $egender and rights in the modern American workplace /$fKatherine Turk 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 300 $aIncludes index. 311 0 $a0-8122-4820-1 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Notions of Sex Equality --$tChapter 1. Defining Sex Discrimination --$tChapter 2. Class and Class Action --$tChapter 3. Feminism and Workplace Fairness --$tChapter 4. Reevaluating Women?s Work --$tChapter 5. Sex Equality and the Service Sector --$tChapter 6. A Man?s World, but Only for Some --$tChapter 7. Opting Out or Buying In --$tConclusion. Illusions of Sex Equality --$tList of Abbreviations --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal attributes as sex, race, and religion. This provision, known as Title VII, laid a new legal foundation for women's rights at work. Though President Kennedy and other lawmakers expressed high hopes for Title VII, early attempts to enforce it were inconsistent. In the absence of a consensus definition of sex equality in the law or society, Title VII's practical meaning was far from certain. The first history to foreground Title VII's sex provision, Equality on Trial examines how the law's initial promise inspired a generation of Americans to dispatch expansive notions of sex equality. Imagining new solidarities and building a broad class politics, these workers and activists engaged Title VII to generate a pivotal battle over the terms of democracy and the role of the state in all labor relationships. But the law's ambiguity also allowed for narrow conceptions of sex equality to take hold. Conservatives found ways to bend Title VII's possible meanings to their benefit, discovering that a narrow definition of sex equality allowed businesses to comply with the law without transforming basic workplace structures or ceding power to workers. These contests to fix the meaning of sex equality ultimately laid the legal and cultural foundation for the neoliberal work regimes that enabled some women to break the glass ceiling as employers lowered the floor for everyone else. Synthesizing the histories of work, social movements, and civil rights in the postwar United States, Equality on Trial recovers the range of protagonists whose struggles forged the contemporary meanings of feminism, fairness, and labor rights. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aSex discrimination in employment$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aSex discrimination against women$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSex discrimination in employment$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aSex discrimination against women$xLaw and legislation 676 $a344.73014133 700 $aTurk$b Katherine$01038301 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465643503321 996 $aEquality on trial$92459811 997 $aUNINA